Yoyo alternative for 3 year old

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Hi, I'm hoping for someone to help me find this elusive item.

Due to the joyous Peppa pig my (just) 3 year old only wants a YoYo for Christmas. I checked what he meant and he said a yoyo that 'goes up and down'. I'm happy to get him one but pretty sure he will be gutted on Christmas morning when he can't do it.

I'm looking for some sort of alternative toy that perhaps looks like a yoyo but bounces......... And could be passed off as a yoyo to someone that has never actually seen a yoyo except on bloody peppa pig Any ideas (and links) would be much appreciated. Thank you

tbh i would probably buy the yoyo along with some other bits. you can pick them up in poundshop and other cheap places.

but alternatives - how about a ball in a cup (the wooden cups with a ball attached with string to them) a diablo, skipball. tiger is a fantastic place for those sort of things. ive bought all of those from there for under £3 each :)

I probably will, just hoping there is some wonder gadget out there that I have missed. Thank you

I bought my then 3 to a yoyo last year for exactly this reason! Her little sister also had to have a toy train.

I bought her a yoyo, she obviously couldn't yoyo it but her disappointment was mitigated by quickly suggesting we open another present. The yoyo was then employed as a small cart to drag around beanie babies.

Bloody Peppa Pig!

Possibly a silly suggestion, but a www.hawkin.com/light-up-kinetic-wheel. Tiger sells them for £3.

Also The Works sell wooden Yoyos for 2 for a pound.

I was going to suggest a kinetic wheel; same sort of up/down/spinning action but very easy for a young child to pick up.

Kinetic wheel too. I never knew what they were called until now. DS got one last year and it's the sort of thing everyone picks up and has a play on, adults and children alike. I bought it because I had fond memories of playing with one as a child.

Also you can get small balls, a bit smaller than a tennis ball, on elastic attached to a velcro wrist strap. Too hard for my kids to catch at 3 but at least it's soft and less likely to break stuff or bash toes. They were everywhere when we were on hols this summer. Not to be confused with those bat and ball things which never last more than 5 mins here. Here's a link to the kind of thing but it's ridiculously overpriced, they're pocket money toys.

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000H6CGO0?keywords=ball%20wrist%20strap&qid=1450224036&ref_=sr_1_2&s=kids&sr=1-2

Retractable tape measure?! My 4yo has been obsessed with ours for yonks. I'm getting one for his Stocking this year :)

My four year old has asked for a yoyo, coal and a 'big pile of junk'. The junk is cardboard tubes etc he can build with, the coal is to have a fire in the garden (we have a fire pit but normally burn wood!) and so the yoyo is the sensible gift. He actually uses them in all sorts of imaginitive play, but can't make them go up and down.

not having any luck with cut and paste sorry
do look up the magnetic gyro wheel, that should be manageable for a 3 year old and give him a similar effect to a yoyo.

Reanimating a 4 year old thread in the (overly optimistic) hope that something marvelous has been invented since 2015!

As above- bloody Peppa Pig!

Now off to Google magnetic giro wheel...